A senior Minister of Nepal suggested that the souring relation between India and Nepal as well as the ongoing agitation, which has totally collapsed the economic activities in the Himalayan nation ... more&nbsp

A senior Minister of Nepal suggested that the souring relation between India and Nepal as well as the ongoing agitation, which has totally collapsed the economic activities in the Himalayan nation beside creating crisis of essential item including - food grains, fuel and medicine, can be resolved through dialogue. Speaking to ANI in the sideline of the three-day international seminar on India's North Eastern Region and Buddhist Heritage here, the Cultural, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister of Nepal Ananda Prasad Pokharel said that all economic activities are closed including industries because of the bloackade. The Nepal Minister said that though the present crisis going on in his nation is totally an internal issue and can be resolved within, but a section of the political party for gaining political mileage is trying to involve India along with it. The Madhesi political parties and indigenous groups of the Nepal Terai have been agitating against the country's new Constitution which they deem discriminatory. They are demanding, among others, a redrawing of the boundaries of the provinces in the Himalayan nation as proposed in the new Constitution, and restoration of rights granted to Madhesis in the interim constitution of 2007 which the new charter has snatched away. Due to protests and demonstrations at the border, thousands of Nepal-bound freight vehicles are stuck on the Indian side of the border. This has brought the economy of the landlocked Himalayan nation to a less&nbsp